Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of setting on fire. In Scots law, fire-raising is the technical equivalent of arson in English law. See
arson .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Mostly British usage malicious burning to destroy property; arson.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun malicious burning to destroy property
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Examples
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Shetlanders did the same in 2006, when a quarter of the population signed a petition to stop the deportation of a Thai refugee who had admitted fire-raising several years earlier.
No more wild stereotypes about Shetland Lesley Riddoch 2010
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Its first MSP, a young Labour peer, stepped down after being imprisoned for fire-raising.
John Rentoul today puts Trevor Kavanagh and myself in the... 2009
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Its first MSP, a young Labour peer, stepped down after being imprisoned for fire-raising.
John Rentoul today puts Trevor Kavanagh and myself in the... 2009
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Widdrington at Chevy – Chase; but as for fire-raising, there was not so much as a lighted lunt amongst us, save the match which the dragon had to light the burning tow withal, which he was to spit against Saint
The Abbot 2008
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At Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Thursday, a not guilty plea to a second fire-raising charge was accepted.
Archive 2005-08-28 Laban 2005
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At Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Thursday, a not guilty plea to a second fire-raising charge was accepted.
He IS The Twisted Firestarter ! Laban 2005
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Up to this point, the Eighth had rarely aimed its bombs directly at civilians, and it would never employ the fire-raising tactics used by Bomber Harris.
Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006
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Up to this point, the Eighth had rarely aimed its bombs directly at civilians, and it would never employ the fire-raising tactics used by Bomber Harris.
Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006
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Unofficially, in the fortnight between the fire-raising at L-beck and Hitler's order for "terror attacks of a retaliatory nature" - meaning the V-weapons-word of the Angel got around.
Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978
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No one saw the fire lighted, but after the disaster a certain number of little fuse-sticks which the Germans frequently use for the purpose of fire-raising, and which the peasants call "macaronis," were collected.
The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915 Various
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